Tour de France 2012: Route details

The 2012 Tour de France starts in Liège, Belgium, on Saturday June 30 and concludes three weeks later in Paris on Sunday, July 22 2012.

The Belgian city of Liège will kick off the 2012 Tour, having previously hosted the race’s Grand Depart in 2004 with a 6.1km prologue time trial won by Fabian Cancellara.

The race then heads due west into France hitting the first real hills of the race in Monts du Boulonnais on the way to Boulogne-sur-Mer before winding its way south to the Alps and a short excursion into Switzerland.

Then it’s across to the Pyrenees for what will be two key high mountains stages before a long transfer north for a decisive time trial stage and last day procession into Paris.

There’s a total of 96.1km of individual time trialling, four medium mountain stages, five high mountain stages and nine flat stages over the 3,479km route.

Just to let you know that myself and a few Ham Radio friends are running a Special Event Station, Call Sign GB4TDF from 26th June to 23rd July 2012 to celebrate the Tour de France, Cycling in general and Brad Wiggins in particular. It is my idea, as I am the cyclist in the group and we intend to be on the air most days during the actual Tour.

Maybe you could find room in your Mag just to mention it and maybe help us out with a few digital images that we may use to publicize the event, these would be very useful as they would go on special Ham Radio websites as well.

We will be contacting the world on HF and speaking to as many stations as possible and if you need any further information, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

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